Spring-seat.



No. 846,085. PATENTED MAR. 5, 1907. A. BODENSTEIN.

SPRING SEAT.

APPLICATION FILED MAR.3, 1905.

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ALBERT BODENSTEIN, OF TRENTON, NEW JERSEY, ASSIGNOR TO THOMAS A. STOLL, OFTRENTON, NEW JERSEY,

SPRING-SEAT-r.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented March 5, 1907.

' Application filed Marcli 3,1905. Serial No. 248,214.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that LALBERT BODENSTEIN, a. citizen of the United States,- residing at Trenton, in the county of Mercer and State of. New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Spring Seats, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to spring-seats for chairs, vehicles, &c., wherein the springs are seated upon and supported by cross-pieces which are in turn secured to the frame of the seats. v

The object of my invention is to provide ready means of attaching the springs to said I 5 cross-pieces and securing them firmly thereto,

producing. thereby a simple and inexpensive construction.

In the accompanying drawing, forming a part of this specification, 'Figure 1 is a side view of my invention; Fig. 2 is a top view of a strut and a portion of a s ring attached thereto by the novel means liereinafter described. Fig. 3 is a detail view of a portion of such strut with a clip thereto attached,

and Fig. 4 is a perspective view of such clip.

Seats to which my said invention are applicable are usually provided with a rectangular frame of wood upon which the springs within such frame are indirectly supported. A

0 cross-sectional view of two members of such a frame is shown at 1 and 2 in Fig. 1. On these members is supported the strut 3, which is made, preferabl of iron or steel and is attached to said mem ers 1 and 2 by nails 3 5 or screws entering said frame through-apep tures formed in-the ends of said strut 3.. The strut 3 is preferably formed, as shown in the drawing, with a li at each end thereof,

ierced as' at 4. hroughout its principal o ength it is preferabl corrugated, as shown in the drawings, for t e purpose of affording sufiicient rigidity of the strut with the least Weight of metal.

5 is a clip made of metal of a sufiicient strength and resiliency to be snapped, upon the strut 3 and to retam its position thereon,

.as indicated in Fig. 3. The. volute springs 6 have their lower ends screwed into the projecting hooks 7 of the clips 5, and by screwing the springs into said hooks sufficiently the clips 5 are contracted upon the strut 3 and the lower portion of said volute springs 6 sufiiciently to gain and maintain a rigid attachment of said springs to said strut at anydesired point where said clip or clips may be located onsaid strut, thereby maintaining said springs in a perpendicular position relative to said strut.

- By my said construction I am enabled to provide a practical and satisfactory spring seat and also to provide an article of manufacture both cheap and which may be readily I assembled and ad usted to the satisfaction of the maker of the complete seat, who can at pleasure regulate or change the number of springs upon any one of the struts and'can space the same at will.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim is i Thecombination of a strut laterally and ALBERT BODENSTEIN.

' Witnesses:

F. M. HILL, I W LLIAM R. PIPER. 

